Improvement in velocipedes



E. A. WHEELER VELOCIPEDE. No.177,774.-. Patented May 23,1876;

N'PETERS, PHDTO-LITHOGMPHEI, WASNINGTON D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EARL A. WHEELER, OF SHARON, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEM ENT IN VELOCIPEDES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,774, dated May 23,1876 application filed January 3, 1876.

To all whom it may concern 'Be it known that I, EAEL A. WHEELER, of Sharon,-in the county of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Velocipede, of which the following istaken on line at a; of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view, illustrating the construction of the wheel and the disks for holding the same on the axle.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

The wheel-rims a and spokes b are made of small round metal, and are soldered or brazed together, and the hubs consist of two disks, U, of light thin'sheet metal soldered to the 'spokes. The bubs of the hind wheels are secured on thb axle between two disks, 6 and f,- which are soldered to the axle, and the inner ones form ratchets with which the wheels, which turn loosely on the axle, are connected by spring-pawls g to allow the" necessary variable motion of the wheels for turning curves. The front wheel is similarly secured by two disks, 6. The frame is made of a metal rod, bent in the fork shape represented by the parts h, i, and j, the parts h having an eye, I,

in the end for connecting the axle m, and the part j being the portion which springs up to the beam never the top of the front wheel. An upright bearer, 0, consisting of a metal rod bent in suitable form to rest on parts h of the frame next to the axle, and soldered to said parts, supports a pulley, 1), over which the treadle and pawl suspending-cord 1 works. The front bearer consists of a doubled wire springing over the wheel and connected to the axle by eyes 8 in the lower end, and a single rod attached to the top of the bow for the pivot of the socket t of the frame to turn on. The guiding-lever is a metal rod, bent in fork shape, of which the doubled part a forms the handle and the parts to the bow stretching around the wheel to the axle and connected to it, the connection being by eyes in the ends Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- The combination with an axle, m, having media-n treadle-operated ratchets, of the fast ratchets on ends, and the pawls attached to the loose ground-wheels, as and for the purpose specified.

EARL A. WHEELE Witnesses:

JOHN A. PORTER, CALVIN THoMPsoN. 

